Doctor Who: The Abominable Snowman (1967)

Country of Origin: UK
Dates of Original Broadcast: 30 September 1967-4 November 1967
Number of Episodes: 6
Average Episode Running Times: 25m
Format:
Colour Format: black and white
Sound: mono

DIRECTION

Director: Gerald Blake

PRODUCTION
Production Company: BBC
Producer: Innes Lloyd

SCRIPT
Script: Mervyn Haisman, Henry Lincoln
Story Editor: Peter Bryant

PHOTOGRAPHY
Studio Lighting: Howard King
Film Camera: Peter Bartlett, Ken Westbury

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Film Editor: Philip Barnikel

MUSIC
Theme Music: Ron Grainer, The BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Theme Music Arranger: Delia Derbyshire

SOUND
Studio Sound: Norman Bennett, Alan Edmonds
Special Sound: Brian Hodgson

COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP
Make Up: Sylvia James
Costumes: Martin Baugh

VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects: Ron Oates, Ulrich Grosser

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Designer: Malcolm Middleton

OTHER CREW
Production Assistant: Marjorie Yorke
Assistant Floor Manager: Roselyn Parker

LOCATIONS
Locations: Rhaeadr Ogwen, Gwynedd, Wales, UK

CAST

Episode 1
Patrick Troughton (The Doctor)
Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon)
Deborah Watling (Victoria Waterfield)
Jack Watling (Professor Edward Travers)
Norman Jones (Krisong)
David Spenser (Thonmi)
David Grey (Rinchen)
Raymond Llewellyn (Sapan)
Reg Whithead (Yeti)

Episode 2
Patrick Troughton (The Doctor)
Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon)
Deborah Watling (Victoria Waterfield)
Jack Watling (Professor Edward Travers)
Norman Jones (Krisong)
David Spenser (Thonmi)
David Grey (Rinchen)
Raymond Llewellyn (Sapan)
Reg Whithead, Tony Harwood, Richard Kerley (Yeti)
Charles Morgan (Songsten)
Wolfe Morris (Padmasambhava)
David Baron (Ralpachan)

Episode 3
Patrick Troughton (The Doctor)
Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon)
Deborah Watling (Victoria Waterfield)
Jack Watling (Professor Edward Travers)
Norman Jones (Krisong)
David Spenser (Thonmi)
David Grey (Rinchen)
Raymond Llewellyn (Sapan)
Reg Whithead, Tony Harwood, Richard Kerley, John Hogan (Yeti)
Charles Morgan (Songsten)
Wolfe Morris (Padmasambhava)
David Baron (Ralpachan)

Episode 4
Patrick Troughton (The Doctor)
Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon)
Deborah Watling (Victoria Waterfield)
Jack Watling (Professor Edward Travers)
Norman Jones (Krisong)
David Spenser (Thonmi)
David Grey (Rinchen)
Raymond Llewellyn (Sapan)
Reg Whithead, Tony Harwood, Richard Kerley, John Hogan (Yeti)
Charles Morgan (Songsten)
Wolfe Morris (Padmasambhava)
David Baron (Ralpachan)

Episode 5
Patrick Troughton (The Doctor)
Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon)
Deborah Watling (Victoria Waterfield)
Jack Watling (Professor Edward Travers)
Norman Jones (Krisong)
David Spenser (Thonmi)
David Grey (Rinchen)
Raymond Llewellyn (Sapan)
Reg Whithead, Tony Harwood, Richard Kerley, John Hogan (Yeti)
Charles Morgan (Songsten)
Wolfe Morris (Padmasambhava)
David Baron (Ralpachan)

Episode 6
Patrick Troughton (The Doctor)
Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon)
Deborah Watling (Victoria Waterfield)
Jack Watling (Professor Edward Travers)
Norman Jones (Krisong)
David Spenser (Thonmi)
Raymond Llewellyn (Sapan)
Reg Whithead, Tony Harwood, Richard Kerley (Yeti)
Charles Morgan (Songsten)
Wolfe Morris (Padmasambhava)
David Baron (Ralpachan)

UNCREDITED CAST

Wolfe Morris (voice of the Great Intelligence)
Richard Atherton, Bobby Beaumont, Roger Bowdler, Charles Finch, Terry Nelson, Jack Rowland (Lamas)
Antonio de Maggio, Barry Du Pre, Michael Durham, Pat Gorman, Richard King, Crawford Lyle (warrior monks)

PLOT SUMMARY

The Doctor travels to Tibet in 1935 to return a sacred bell, the ghants, to a monastery. He meets the explorer Travers who is searching for the fabled Yeti. But they both get more than they bargained for when the Yeti not only turn out to be very real, but robots deployed by the Great Intelligence which has possessed the High Lama.

UK
Television Distributor: BBC

1967
August
23: UK - studio filming at Ealing, London, UK
24: UK - studio filming at Ealing, London, UK
25: UK - studio filming at Ealing, London, UK

September
9: UK - location filming takes place
5: UK - location filming takes place
6: UK - location filming takes place
7: UK - location filming takes place
8: UK - location filming takes place
9: UK - location filming takes place
15: UK - studio recording at BBC Lime Grove Studio D, London, UK
16: UK - studio recording at BBC Lime Grove Studio D, London, UK
23: UK - studio recording at BBC Lime Grove Studio D, London, UK
30: UK - Episode 1 television broadcast (on BBC1); studio recording at BBC Lime Grove Studio D, London, UK

October
7: UK - Episode 2 television broadcast (on BBC1); studio recording at BBC Lime Grove Studio D, London, UK
14: UK - Episode 3 television broadcast (on BBC1); studio recording at BBC Lime Grove Studio D, London, UK
21: UK - Episode 4 television broadcast (on BBC1)
28: UK - Episode 5 television broadcast (on BBC1)

November
4: UK - Episode 6 television broadcast (on BBC1)

1998
March
4: UK - episode 2 shown at the National Film Theatre, London

SEQUEL
Doctor Who: The Web of Fear (1968)

SEE ALSO
Doctor Who: The Five Doctors (1983)

BOOKS

Doctor Who: The Handbook: The Second Doctor pp.103-109
credits, synopsis, review (by David J. Howe, Mark Stammers, Stephen James Walker)

Doctor Who: The Television Companion pp.133-135
credits, synopsis, review (by David J. Howe and Stephen James Walker)

KEYWORDS

abominable snowmen, aliens, expeditions, himalayas, robots, time travel, yeti

Last Updated: 22 March, 2009